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The ESRF synchrotron is an ambitious project that represents a very real technological, scientific and human challenge. It could only be international.
In 1988, twelve European countries joined forces to create the synchrotron in Grenoble. Since then, seven more countries have joined the group. Together they create the indispensable synergy needed to carry out advanced scientific research. The ESRF website Scientists defuse the Vietnam time bomb A key mechanism by which a bacterial pathogen causes the deadly tropical disease melioidosis has been discovered by an international team of scientists... |
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Exploring the last white spot on Earth Scientists will soon be exploring matter at temperatures and pressures so extreme that the conditions can only be produced for microseconds using powerful pulsed lasers. Matter in such states is present in the Earth’s liquid iron core, 2500 kilometres beneath the surface, and also in elusive “warm dense matter” inside large planets like Jupiter. A new X-ray beamline ID24 at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France, allows a new level of exploration of the last white spot on our globe: the centre of the Earth ... |
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A new technique to see crystals like never before
An international team of scientists led by the Fresnel Institute (CNRS/University of Central Aix-Marseille/Ecole Marseille) and the ESRF has developed a new technique to make visible nanometre-sized structures in crystalline materials. This technique combines two pioneering approaches in nanocharacterisation: lensless microscopy and scanning X-ray diffraction microscopy. The image of the nano-structured object is quantitative, three-dimensional and of high-resolution. The technique could revolutionise research in various disciplines where complex crystal structures are studied, such as the life sciences and microelectronics. The work is published in the journal Nature Communications dated 29 November 2011.... |
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X-rays reveal an unfinished self-portrait by Rembrandt van Rijn
Studies at the ESRF and at Brookhaven National Laboratory have helped to reveal a hidden painting, thought to be a self-portrait by Rembrandt, below an unknown painting entitled Old Man with a Beard. On Friday 2 December 2011 an unknown painting by Rembrandt is being presented in the Rembrandt House Museum (Amsterdam). The small panel, Old Man with a Beard was painted by Rembrandt around 1630, at the end of his time in Leiden. The Rembrandt House Museum has the painting on loan from a private collector. ... |
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